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Students' essays generated by ChatGPT. This is just one of the ways in which the education landscape is changing, according to Education Minister Dr. Nyan Gadsby-Dolly, who says the time has come for 'AI' to be integrated into the education system. The Minister was speaking at the 4th CXC Ministerial Summit, held on the theme, 'Artificial Intelligence and Technological innovations In Shaping Caribbean Education'. Rynessa Cutting reports.
Transcript
00:00A teacher was saying, what are my three biggest challenges
00:05for this academic year so far?
00:07He said, first one, an essay.
00:09And he showed a picture of the essay.
00:11And his marking on it was, generated from CHAT-GPT.
00:15He said, my second biggest challenge, another essay,
00:19generated from CHAT-GPT.
00:21And you could understand what the third one was.
00:23And he was expressing the frustration
00:28that this is what he has to deal with moving along.
00:33AI has entered the school system,
00:35but not in a formal way.
00:37Now, educators face the task of navigating the education
00:40space in this new reality.
00:43However, Education Minister Dr. Nyan Gadsby-Dawley
00:45says, this should be seen as an opportunity and not a threat.
00:50The fact is, children have been asking
00:52this question for a long time.
00:55If I could find all the information,
00:58why are you asking me to just regurgitate it?
01:00It means that we have to equip our young people to embrace
01:04what is available.
01:07And we have to ensure that they can use it.
01:10But it also means it's not just the student that has to adapt.
01:14It is also the teacher.
01:1721st century learners require 21st century teachers.
01:23And that is an area that we must emphasize.
01:29And we must promote.
01:31And we have to look at how our teachers use AI.
01:35The Education Minister was speaking
01:36at the fourth CXC Ministerial Summit
01:39held on the theme, Artificial Intelligence
01:42and Technological Innovations in Shaping Caribbean Education,
01:46where she spoke to potential benefits of AI
01:49for teaching and learning.
01:51The AI-generated tools that are available for teachers
01:54in the forms of apps and programs and systems
01:58give them a lot more facility with regard
02:02to their routine assignments.
02:04It can help them to analyze what their students are doing.
02:07It can help them with a normal multiple-choice online test
02:12that we were doing years ago.
02:14It can now analyze to a greater degree.
02:18And that is the strength.
02:20CEO of CXC, Dr. Wayne Wesley, suggested
02:24that the employment of AI tools could ultimately
02:26help to improve student performance across the region.
02:30In particular, in one problem area,
02:33he proffered educational gaming tools as an example.
02:37Student needs dynamic interaction.
02:41And AI provides us with that ability
02:45to provide that dynamic interaction that
02:49is adjusting to their level of interest,
02:51adjusting to their level of difficulty,
02:54adjusting to their level of competence,
02:56which is what game does.
02:57As soon as you master one level, what it does?
02:59Take it to another level, and you always
03:02want to just crush that next candy.
03:05Right?
03:06Can you imagine students just want
03:08to know crush that level of mathematics,
03:11crush that next level of algebra,
03:13crush that next level of matrix, crush
03:15that next level of arithmetic?
03:19AI has the potential for us to have
03:22personalized and unique intervention
03:25to transform our education.
03:28While in support, Chairman of CXC, Professor Sir Hilary
03:31Bacchus, issued a word of caution
03:34as he noted that with great power
03:36comes great responsibility.
03:39For us in educational institutions,
03:42this is stimulating.
03:45The UWI, where I work, we are now
03:48working through a framework, a policy perspective,
03:54and we are engaging the entire institution to give us
03:59ideas on how to proceed.
04:02But proceed, we must.
04:06Proceed with care?
04:07Absolutely.
04:09Recognizing the enormous benefits
04:13that are going to be derived, but the need
04:16to extract integrity, truth, accuracy, and quality
04:23from the engagement.
04:26Renessa Cutting, TV6 News.
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